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The Hymn Written in a Shipwreck

What Horatio Spafford sent across the water in 1873 — and why we still cannot stop singing it.

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The Assignment

Theology of creativity & calling

Is It Vain to Want My Work to Be Beautiful?

On aesthetic hunger, calling, and the one question most Christian artists are afraid to ask out loud.

6 min

The Work Before the Work

Why formation matters more than output — and how the saints understood something we keep forgetting.

5 min

The Altar

Prayer, Scripture & the inner life

When the Prayer Doesn't Come

On silence, lament, and the psalmist who kept writing anyway.

5 min

Disappointed With God

Philip Yancey asked the question in 1988. It hasn't gotten easier to answer. Here's where we land.

7 min
📡 From the Scene

r/ChristianMusic

The Steve Taylor conversation is back — and the question it keeps opening is the right one: what does prophetic satire sound like when the church can't hear itself?

r/ChristianMusic

Augustin SMTH's new single sits at the intersection of pop and something harder to name. Worth three listens before you decide what to call it.

r/ChristianMusic

Aaron Christopher's "Silhouette" is the kind of acoustic restraint that takes more courage than noise.

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